Description:
A Global Client of ours with head office in New Zealand and staff located across South Africa, UK, India and Europe are seeking a Software Engineer (based in Cape Town) to work remotely) - BACK-END SERVICES USING JAVA and SPRING BOOT
The role is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing scalable microservices while ensuring robustness, security, and scalability. The role includes working with various databases, integrating messaging systems, and ensuring high performance and observability.
Duties and Accountabilities:
Develop and maintain highly scalable and robust back-end services using Java and Spring Boot. Design and implement RESTful APIs, ensuring their integration with various messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ). Work with relational (Postgres) and NoSQL databases (Cassandra, OpenSearch, Pinot), ensuring optimal performance through tuning and optimization. Utilize Kafka for data streaming and manage workflows using Apache Airflow. Implement unit and integration testing using JUnit/Mockito, TestContainers, and BDD frameworks. Ensure secure, scalable, and efficient microservices adhering to system design and architecture best practices. Implement observability with logging, tracing, and monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana. There is an expectation that the role accountabilities and duties will evolve over time. It may be necessary to review this job description through a consultative approach and make alterations in response to the changing nature of our work environment, including but not limited to technological requirements or statutory changes
Resources, Relationships and Authorities:
The role shall collaborate closely with:
Engineering teams Marketing and sales teams Customer support teams Executive leadership External clients from time to time This position requires a high degree of autonomy and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. The role has no authority to incur routine expenditure, commit capital expenditure, approve loans, or extend credit without approval from the Managing Director or the Managing Directors designated representative. The role has no authority to bind the Company to agreements with any other party without approval the Managing Director or the Managing Directors designated representative.Experience and Qualifications
Extensive experience in back-end development with a strong focus on Java, including concurrency, collections, streams, and design patterns. Proficiency in Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security, and Hibernate/JPA. In-depth knowledge of RESTful API design, microservices architecture, an
07 May 2025;
from:
gumtree.co.za